ABSTRACT
Introduction “Hugo Wolfs künstlerischer Nachlass” appeared in February 1904 in the second issue of the new Süddeutsche Monatshefte, at the request of the periodical’s editor Paul Nikolaus Cossmann. Reger had taken a serious interest in Wolf by 1898 at the latest, having published four of the Mörike-Lieder in arrangements for voice and organ with the Mannheim Verlag of Heckel. By 1900, the younger composer would dedicate the Zwölf Lieder op. 51 (on texts of Morgenstern, Bierbaum, and Dehmel, among others) to Wolf. In 1908, Reger arranged ten further Lieder by Wolf, this time from the Spanisches Liederbuch, for voice and organ,
these appearing with the four previous Mörike-Lieder of 1898 issued by C. F. Peters. At the time of the following article, Reger was intensively occupied with editing and arranging several works from Wolf ’s estate acquired by Lauterbach and Kuhn, and the essay may be read as a companion to that activity.
